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mmap should return the start address of newly mapped area when successful. On a successful merge of a VMA, the return address was changed and thus was violating that expectation from userspace. This is a restoration of functionality provided by 309d08d9b3a3 (mm/mmap.c: fix mmap return value when vma is merged after call_mmap()). For completeness of fixing MAP_FIXED, implement the comments from the previous discussion to never update the address and fail if the address changes. Leaving the error as a WARN_ON() to avoid crashing the kernel. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018191613.4133459-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y06yk66SKxlrwwfb@lakrids/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201203085350.22624-1-liuzixian4@huawei.com/ Fixes: 4dd1b84140c1 ("mm/mmap: use advanced maple tree API for mmap_region()") Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Liu Zixian <liuzixian4@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.